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Show I INDIANS SUFFER j BY TRICK PLAY Players Don't Think Fasti Enough to Complete Speaker's Play Tnf Speaker of tho Cleveland Indians. Is a KTfRl manager. Trl Speaker Is nn equally rreat outfielder, out-fielder, perhav vin more " , .,J Speaker uses hl iiea-l in runnnt Die ball club and In playing the outfield. Often Hie nwnaR.-r Is called upon to resort to atratcgy In order to handle a ertaln situation. If the strategy goes Mil 'H ,,ver the manager la regarded as a wlae 'SJ ""in a recent same a. Petrdt Manager! Speaker of the Cleveland club puUetf bit of outfteia atrategy that probably few other hlr league outfielders would have even attempted. ( , I From Bpeaker'a atandpolnt his strate-rlc strate-rlc move' worked perfectly Some or the other Cleveland players, however, failed to think as rapidly a their manager man-ager and a play that would have an.iff-,d an.iff-,d oui a pally, had it been properly com. Pitted resulted In a s-rlo.in Injurs I" Second Baeman WeinbBganM DETAILED ACCOUNT. I , 1.' n,re m ft defiled account of the un- uaua happening, in the Aral Innlnn o , Ma game Cleveland m t'r" run n.i Detroit oame hack win. tw.-. nini and had Veaeh on second. TUue on tir-t ?2d n" out. with Fotherglll at hat. Thi- was the aetttna when fothwlll MltfTTrh bit a fly hall to hort renter field W eaker go under the ball, while BUi aSSveaeh held cloae to their bases. Then, instea.i of catching the ball. Sneaker defllv trapped It. With the same motion that he trapped V the ball he threw it to Wambaganss at '-fflw.il' second. The base runner war? . t B . la to what to do. When Waml.y re- S 1 reived the ball Veach wa tnnd!n,T ..n r.n.i Blue on first, al-o F-'M.ei -.111. ' ' " v'm'n.o do ,, ,::!; d.-Hibe plav was- to run over and touch Veich. who was forced 1 to a. Svancc. and then touch aecond, which w..uld nao I forced Blue. ,, ffi A instead Wamhy. atandlajr a rev- leej L'VlH f-om aecond. rsiltaWd HunneW and no'on? h i ve, b,cn ac.ual.v r,.,, 1 CU TS DEEP GASHES rinall.- 'n the runup on Veacn. tn. bJl'ICaa V.-..n-.by u , lr he Mkndin-; r. end ba wlw i r. SUue a? that base The m-vip continued Tn r.e n ca Ime BHl-.,whO had Use i , i- b'd for sec i 1 'wamhy. noticing a runner coming Into r.mnd and possibly thlnkinc It WSJ FrtherKll" who had hit the ball, jumped Tn front of the bag to touch the runner who nappened to he Blue, who had been retire" psrtiapa 115 seconds before when Wnmby accidentally hit the bag with his fBlue slid Into second verv high, cut-' cut-' two deep Cashes In Wamhy-s leg. He m fortunate U he Isr. t out for BOITU time as a result of the mlxup U uas a most unusual play, in we. ei, ,he manacer thought a bit too nu ck y or hV teamma. es 1 1 was a bit Of atrat-,ty atrat-,ty that instead of a OPPlng rally I suited In the Iota of a valuble plaer. |